K1/I42-2, dated 19.11.2014, on “Recommendation of the improvement of conditions and treatment of asylum-seekers at the National Reception Center of Asylum-Seekers”. Out of the information gathered in the field during the conduct of confidential interviews with persons that were treated in the center and with the institution's staff, and verifying documents, objects, equipment and premises, it resulted that only two recommendations were applied: the one on completing the reconstruction of the center's internal premises, and the one related to supplying the persons residing in the center with clothes seasonally and on a group-age basis, while all the other recommendations mentioned in the following letters of this documents were still not implemented. At the moment of the visit, 27 persons, 20 of whom adults and 7 children, were sheltered at the National Reception Center for Asylum Seekers, which has a capacity of 170 persons. The children were accommodated in the center together with their families, 5 families in total. Their nationality was mainly Afghan, Bulgarian, Armenian, Kosovo, Turkish etc. Regarding the above-mentioned, at the end of the monitoring report it was recommended the following:  Adoption of measures to add the staff of the institution with one lawyer, a social employee, a psychologist, an educator, a caretaker and also a physician, taking into consideration the fact that when the center operates at full capacity sheltering 170 persons, the need for additional staff is a necessity.  Adoption of measures to publish the rights and obligations of the beneficiaries of the Center in accordance with the international standards.  Adoption of measures to draft an agreement with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth in order to offer to all interested persons that are sheltered in the National Reception Center for Asylum-Seekers opportunities for professional education at the Professional Education Centers dependent on this Ministry, and opportunities of employment at the Regional Employment Centers dependent on the same Ministry.  Adoption of measures to treat the persons sheltered in the National Reception Center for Asylum-Seekers with economic assistance, as foreseen by law no. 121/2014 “On Asylum in the Republic of Albania”.  Adoption of measures to protect this center with DPSH staff in accordance with the Council of Ministers' decision no. 262, dated 23.04.2014. The National Reception Center of Human Trafficking Victims - Date 25.09.2015 This was the periodical monitoring visit of the People's Advocate officials in the National Reception Center of Human Trafficking Victims for 2015 year. The target of the visit was gathering information in relation to rights, conditions and treatment of victims/possible victims of trafficking in the institution, and verifying the level of implementation of the recommendations the People's Advocate presented in letter no. 201401744, Protocol no. K4/I 412, dated 13.11.2014, which: “Recommends improvement of conditions and treatment of victims/possible victims of Trafficking at the National Reception Center of Human Trafficking Victims”. 83

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